CARLSBAD -- A Carlsbad mom said she decided to demonstrate outside Carlsbad High School because she felt the district had unfairly treated her son over his artwork featuring the confederate flag.

Shelby Delozier spent Friday outside the high school campus flying the confederate flag. She said it "represents Christianity" and is not a symbol of racism, a conversation that has caused controversy in multiple states and continues to be a hot button issue, even recently addressed by presidential candidate Donald Trump.

She said her protest had to do with the way administration at the ninth grade academy treated her son, 15-year-old Dakota Carpenter, for displaying the confederate flag in his artwork.

"They've told him to take it (artwork) down. They've told him to zip up his jacket when he's wearing it on a T-shirt," Delozier said. "It doesn't mean what they think it means."

Jesse Fuentes, director of secondary education at Carlsbad Municipal Schools, said school policy doesn't directly prohibit the display of the Confederate flag, but the school addresses student grievances when someone indicates they may find an action or symbol offensive.

"If you’re wearing something that someone feels is offensive to them it could be deemed as against the dress code policy," Fuentes said.

Delozier said that during her day-long demonstration she was asked to remove herself from campus property and then told by the Carlsbad Police Department to relocate from 12th Street, two requests with which she complied.

Lt. Jennifer Moyers of the Carlsbad Police Department, said that officer did ask her to relocate from 12th Street around 3 p.m. to allow school buses access to the narrow street.

Fuentes said that the Carlsbad High School is a closed campus and permanent parking on school grounds is not allowed for anyone.

While Delozier was adamant that the Confederate Flag is mistakenly associated with racism, controversial views on the issue led to the removal of the flag from South Carolina's state house following a mass shooting at a black Church in Charleston in June 2014.

Other states, including New Mexico, have had discussions about the proper place for the flag. In August 2014, the city of Albuquerque brought down the flag that flew over the memorial commemorating an 1862 skirmish with confederate soldiers.

In a statement given in August, Lena Brown of the Albuquerque chapter of the NAACP urged calm when talking about the issue.

“To some people it doesn’t mean a thing, it doesn’t bother them one way or another. To others it’s a concern,” Brown said in that statement. “The Confederate flag is a symbol of many things and not all of them are negative.”

Delozier said she is considering whether or not to make a legal appeal on behalf of her son.